BUFFALO, N.Y. – It’s official. The University at Buffalo is creating an academic department dedicated to harnessing artificial intelligence for the public good. The new Department of AI and Society ...

AI companions may be on the rise, but the concept is not new. The original chatbot ELIZA was built in the 1960s, and even ...

The idea that artificial intelligence is going to radically transform society has become almost gospel. In the minds of many, we’re teetering on the edge of an AI utopia or dystopia where ...

The idea of AI running the show is white-hot among researchers, futurists, and doomers. On one hand, we have AI agents making scientific breakthroughs, and on the other hand, we have figures like ...

When Sam Altman announced an April 25 update to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model, he promised it would improve "both intelligence and personality" for the AI model. The update certainly did something to its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. The recent release of Gemini 3 Flash reflects a clear shift in how ...

The growth of technology in recent years has transformed how we live our lives. In some ways, this is good. We have immediate access to a wealth of information that would astound previous generations.

AI is headed for its dot-com moment. Its society-bending potential is real, but AI’s emerging reliability gaps are so ...

Yaser Al-Onaizan, CEO of the National Center for AI in the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), focused on agentic AI as the next step, as in AI that works on our behalf. “The large language models ...